2009年8月14日 星期五

Histoire du Bayard 艦史

Summary (translated and edited from a French post quoted below)

The ironclad Le Bayard, flagship of Adm Courbet (left), was built in Brest based on the design of Sabattier et Lebelin de Dionne, starting on Sept 19, 1876. It was launched in March, 1880, and commissioned on Nov 21, 1882. On March 31, 1883, Adm Courbet took command and in June, it sailed for Indochina.

As the command center, it played a major role in the Sino-French war, and of course participated in the campaigns against Keelung, Danshui, Shipu, the Pescardores, and the blockade of Taiwan among other affairs.

On June 11, 1885, Adm Courbet died on board the Bayard. The last mission of the ship was to ferry Courbet's body back home to France (some photos below captured its passage through Port Saïd of the Suez Canal and the last one, Courbet's casket in the ship's chapel).

The Bayard was de-commissioned in Toulon in Aug, 1885, and scrapped and sold in 1899.

More details - basé sur http://jose.chapalain.free.fr/pageprin147.htm [specs highlighted in blue and major events in red]: